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Texas Gov. Rick Perry made a splash by arriving in Connecticut on the wings of an advertising blitz declaring the Lone Star State "Open for Business." Perry wants Connecticut businesses to move to Texas. There's nothing new in governors alighting in other states to try to take home some businesses with them. All governors do it: It's their records of success that vary. What made Perry's trip to Connecticut different is that businesses here have become so vulnerable to appeals from places that Connecticut leaders once thought they could safely hold in low regard. The Texas advertisement, for example, made an uplifting appeal with testimonies from Texans on medicine,...

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